Reported directly to devteam; transcription typo: had "Vines", should
be "Vimes".
I double checked that long passage and found two other mistakes:
"proffered" was misspelled with 2nd 'r' doubled,
| 'Quoted statement,' someone said. 'Another statement.'
lacked the opening quote on the second sentence.
My source uses double quotes (normal American usage). I'm not sure
why the passages which refer to it--the page number annotations
specify that same source--were transcribed with single quotes (normal
British usage), but I've left those as is.
The sentence with "Vines" was also separated from the previous one by
a single space when nearly everything in dat/tribute uses double space.
A quick regexp search found half a dozen or so other instances of that.
This fixes those but the searching wasn't rigorous and it's sometimes
ambiguous whether an elipsis or long dash constitutes the end of a
sentence before another starts or is just in the middle of a long one.
Displacer beast and genetic engineer lacked data.base entries so
I've made a couple up from thin air. I tried to look up "genetic
engineering" in _the_Concise_Dictionary_of_Biology_ (after seeing
that the quantum mechanic quote comes from _Concise_Dictionary_of_
_Physics_) but could only view the first sentence so don't know
whether it had anything more useful. I also skipped the AD&D
Monster Manual for displacer beast except for remembering the
puma-like bit from previously checking it. So regardless of any
old copyright issues in data.base, there shouldn't be any new ones.
Allows creating shaped or themed rooms for the Dungeons of Doom
via lua script.
Invalidates bones and saves.
Makefiles updated for unix/linux by adding themerms.lua, but other
OSes need to have that added.
Instead of trying to figure out in core whether to change a minetown
food shop to health food shop for monks, just figure it out in the
minetown level creation script.
Intended to simplify many of the math.random calls currently in use, and
make them more semantic and thus more readable.
The dice function d() takes either a two-argument form which is the same
as in the C source (number of dice, faces per die) or a one-argument
form that rolls a single die.
The percent(N) function returns true N% of the time.
Instead of having the demon lair levels unconditionally no-teleport,
grant demon lords and princes the ability to suppress teleportation
in Gehennom on the level they are on.
When a special level is created, there's a chance it gets flipped
horizontally and/or vertically.
Add new level flags "noflip", "noflipx", and "noflipy" to prevent
flipping the level. Add a wiz-mode command #wizlevelflip to test
the flipping on current level - although this doesn't flip everything,
as level flipping is meant to happen during level creation.
A quote about "winning team" doesn't fit nethack very well but this
is too good to pass up. I considered adding "/Rule Six/" as a false
rumor, but the rumors don't offer any way to specify attribution.
Also, give full attribution for another Douglas Adams quote that's
used for a random ungraving.
Stairs up from Orcish Town variation of Mine Town were being forced
to be near the bottom of the left side of the level due to a bogus
exclusion region in the level description. If that small area was all
solid rock then a warning was issued and no stairs up were created.
Instead of hardcoding the "prize" type and then watching for that
to be created, specify it in the level description.
Also, instead of giving both Sokoban end levels 50:50 chance for
either prize, bias the one that used to always have the bag of
holding to now have 75% chance for that and 25% chance for amulet
of reflection, with the other one having those chances reversed.
So still 50:50 overall.
Somewhat similar to 'mention_walls', 'mention_decor' is a way to
request additional feedback when moving around the map. It reports
furniture or unusual terrain when you step on that. Normally stepping
on furniture only mentions it when it is covered by object(s). And
moving onto (rather than into) water or lava or ice doesn't bother
saying anything at all. With the new option set there will be a
message. It uses Norep so won't repeat when moving from one water
spot to another or one lava spot to another or one ice spot to another
unless there has been at least one intervening message. There is also
a one-shot message when moving from water or lava or ice onto ordinary
terrain (not Norep, just once since there's no land to land message).
Having the verbose flag Off doesn't inhibit these new messages but it
does shorten them: "A fountain." instead of "There is a fountain here."
The Guidebook gets a new subsection "Movement feedback" of the "Rooms
and corridors" section and it covers more than just 'mention_decor'.
As usual, Guidebook.tex is untested.
'mention_decor' persists across save/restore, so 'struct flags' has
changed and EDITLEVEL is being bumped, hence save files are invalided.
This turned out to be a lot more work than I anticipated, but it is
definitely simpler (other than having #wizmakemap take achievements
away if you replace the level that contains the 'prize', which wasn't
handled before).
I cheated and made Mine's End into a no-bones level because the new
flagging scheme for luckstone, bag, and amulet can't carry over from
one game to another. It probably should have been no-bones all along.
Sokoban didn't have this issue because it's already no-bones.
Existing save files are invalidated.
Cavemen don't have goal_alt message - before lua, that one
fell through into goal_next message, but now it tried to
load the "common" message. Add ability to define message fallbacks,
and make goal_next the fallback for goal_alt.
Also prevent issuing quest.lua errors twice.
Report complained that having autoopen not work when fumbling was
inconvenient and mentioned that the "ouch! you bump into a door"
result didn't take any time. This updates the documentation to
state that autoopen won't work while fumbling (so the inconvenient
behavior persists) but changes movement so that bumping into a door
now takes time. (Despite "ouch!", it doesn't inflict any damage.)
Also, document the recently added autounlock option.
Bite the bullet and add a special purpose boolean option to control
game behavior for random clairvoyance. When objects or monsters are
discovered, it normally issues "you sense your surroundings" and
performs a getpos() operation which allows the player to browse the
map by moving the cursor around and getting 'autodescribe' feedback.
But there have been complaints that once the hero has the Amulet
(which triggers random clairvoyance even though hero isn't flagged
as having that attribute) the message and pause-to-browse become too
intrusive.
This was initially combined with the 'timed clairvoyance' fix because
they both bump EDITLEVEL to invalidate existing save files, but their
details don't interact so I separated them.
PatR